Tag: Kubernetes
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GitOps: Moving from Octopus to … Octopus?
Well, not really, but I find it a bit cheeky that ArgoCD’s icon is, in fact, an orange octopus. There are so many different ways to provision and run Kubernetes clusters that, without some sense of standardization across the organization, Kubernetes can become an operations nightmare. And while a well-run operations environment can allow application…
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Tech Tip – Turn on forwarded headers in Nginx
I have been using Nginx as a reverse proxy for some time. In the very first iteration of my home lab, it lived on a VM and allowed me to point my firewall rules to a single target, and then route traffic from there. It has since been promoted to a dedicated Raspberry Pi in…
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Home Lab: Disaster Recovery and time for an Upgrade!
It never fails that something breaks when I am on vacation. It wasn’t until I returned that I realized how extensive the damage was, and how my haste to fix it made it worse.
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Hardening your Kubernetes Cluster: Don’t run as root!
People sometimes ask my why I do not read for pleasure. As my career entails ingesting the NSA/CISA technical report on Kubernetes Hardening Guidance and translating it into actionable material, I ask that you let me enjoy hobbies that do not involve the written word.
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Moving the home lab to Kubernetes
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it, right? In the world of software, sometimes the path forward involves breaking the old things first.